If your action takes place between the deepest part of the ocean floor and small town USA and your characters need to whizz quickly between the two? No problems. If the whole sex-with-a-tail thing is just way too mind-bending – voila! No tails. You know what I love about fantasy? You don’t just get to break the rules, you get to write your own. I had lots of feedback from critique partners and other readers, and it helped shape what worked and what didn’t. And, like most paths less travelled, I had to learn some things along the way. So fantasy was kind of an untrod road for me. Then she said something like: Erhh…you know mermaids aren’t real, right? I mean, I you had those pyjamas back when you were seven, but… I said something like: No, don’t be silly, you know I don’t write fantasy. I told my sister: I’m writing a mermaid book. Rania, my deep sea mermaid living incognito as a small town cop, hammered at my brain. For me, this time, and this character, it had to be fantasy. I’m far too nice to say the word whore, but I never really met a genre I didn’t like. Like Mae West said: “Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I’m tired.” Me? I’m an omnivore, in reading and in writing. Please welcome fellow Escape author Ros Baxter to the ‘Writing Wednesday’ segment of the blog today! Ros is the author of Fish Out Of Water (Escape Publishing) and co-author of Sister Pact (Harper Collins).
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